tasks, we show that robots may reduce employment and wages, and that the local labor market effects of robots can be … estimated by regressing the change in employment and wages on the exposure to robots in each local labor market—defined from the … national penetration of robots into each industry and the local distribution of employment across industries. Using this …

created. In a static version where capital is fixed and technology is exogenous, automation reduces employment and the labor …

employment. Our task-based framework emphasizes the displacement effect that automation creates as machines and AI replace labor …

in non-AI positions. We find no discernible relationship between AI exposure and employment or wage growth at the …

account for 20% of manufacturing employment and value added. Consistent with theory, robot adopters experience significant … declines in labor share and the share of production workers in employment, and increases in value added and productivity. They … expand their overall employment as well. However, this expansion comes at the expense of their competitors (as automation …